Browsing the "At Length" Category

Open Letter to LA City Council President Herb Wesson By James Preston Allen, Publisher As the outgoing president of the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council, which you and the Los Angeles City Council may have heard [&hellip... Read More→

Emergency Response Team meets with 145 homeless people, 85% call the Harbor Area home James Preston Allen, Publisher It has been more than 10 months since Councilman Joe Buscaino held his San Pedro Forum on Homelessness [&hellip... Read More→

Pres. Candidate Says He Can Beat Trump; Delivers Message of Renewal to Middle Class It had been much rumored for weeks that presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders would come to San Pedro. The question was always [&hellip... Read More→

Obama in Vietnam By James Preston Allen, Publisher “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” —American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead [&hellip... Read More→

For every human problem there is a humane solution James Preston Allen, Publisher It’s happening across the country—a populist backlash from the right and the left—the flames of which are nipping at the heels of marginalized [&hellip... Read More→

The new urban pioneers, slavery on the high seas and Trump By James Preston Allen, Publisher San Pedro is once again waiting at the threshold of another round of redevelopment and speculation, based upon the Port [&hellip... Read More→

Campaign 2016 By James Preston Allen, Publisher It has been five years and a few months since the young people of Egypt rose up at Tahrir (Liberation) Square to protest and ultimately depose Hosni Mubarak’s regime [&hellip... Read More→

Los Angeles has changed but will it also embrace a new reality? By James Preston Allen, Publisher I remember traveling one hot July day in 1955 to the opening of Disneyland in Anaheim. For the “happiest [&hellip... Read More→

The 2016 Presidential Race: A Choice of Democratic Socialism vs. Corporate Capitalism By James Preston Allen, Publisher The 2016 race for president seems to be spinning out in ever more curious and historical proportions without there [&hellip... Read More→

By James Preston Allen, Publisher The crowds were ebullient, if not inebriated, at the long-awaited opening of Brouwerij West in old Warehouse 9 near the San Pedro waterfront on 22nd Street and Harbor Boulevard. Wayne Blank, [&hellip... Read More→